Clues elusive in suspected California mountain lion attack

PERRIS, Calif. (AP) — A week after an attack on a Southern California man, DNA tests to determine whether he was mauled by a mountain lion proved inconclusive, the victim remains too injured to be interviewed and the suspected cat hasn't been found.

California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Lt. Patrick Foy says samples gathered from 48-year-old Raymond Navarro and his Riverside County campsite have not been good enough to get conclusive results.

Navarro's wounds are consistent with a cougar attack, but Foy says the case is "a very confusing puzzle."

Residents of Trenton report that coyotes are roaming the streets of the state capital at night. So many have made Princeton their home that the town debated, but ultimately dismissed, the idea of hiring sharpshooters to cull the population.

Illinois hunters see Gov. Bruce Rauner as a potential new ally as they eye legislation that includes measures to ban the use of drones to track wildlife, allow silencers at gun ranges, expand coyote hunting to crossbows and resurrect a bobcat hunting season.

Geese, ducks and other birds are usually the problem. But, recently it was wildlife of another sort. It took an hour before crews chased down a coyote that was wandering across the runways and killed it.

The survey focuses on animals taken by professional trappers in several counties near Augusta; on tracts across the Savannah River in South Carolina; and from the coastal plains south of Auburn, Alabama.

Samuel Ives was mauled by a black bear during a 2007 Father's Day camping trip in American Fork Canyon. The family said authorities failed to warn people about the bear after it attacked other campers.

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